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Last updated on 2021-12-21.

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David Zhang

Experienced bioinformatician who enjoys learning and applying the best practices for method development. I focus on developing robust, user-friendly tools that harness transcriptomic data to improve the rate of genetic diagnosis.

Education

PhD, Bioinformatics

University College London

London, UK

Present - 2017

  • Thesis: Using transcriptomics to improve the genetic diagnosis rate of rare disease patients.

MSc, Neuroscience

University College London

London, UK

2016 - 2015

  • Thesis: The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in Xerodoma pigmentosum
  • Grade: Merit (68%)
  • Awarded post-graduate support scheme bursary (£10,000)

BSc, Biomedical science

University College London

London, UK

2015 - 2012

  • Thesis: Investigating the function of CYFIP1 in the development of rat hippocampal neurons.
  • Grade: 2:1 (69%)

H.S.

Queen Elizabeth’s School

Barnet, UK

2012 - 2007

  • Grades: Maths (A*), Biology (A*), Chemistry (A*), Sociology (A).

Work Experience

Bioinformatician internship (2 months)

Verge Genomics

Remote, US

2021

  • Goal: Set up an aberrant splicing detection pipeline for drug target discovery in C9orf72 ALS patients.
  • Used docker to setup a reproducible workflow for running aberrant splicing analyses on an AWS instance.

Software & programming

Bioconductor packages

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Present - 2020

  • dasper: Detection of aberrant splicing events in RNA-sequencing. Author and maintainer.
  • megadepth: BigWig and BAM related utilities. An R wrapper for the megadepth software developed by Chris Wilks. Co-author and maintainer.
  • ODER: Optimising the definition of Expressed Regions. Submitted to Bioconductor. Co-author and maintainer.

Python packages

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Present - 2021

  • codino converts a codon design to the expected amino acid frequencies, and vice versa. Author and maintainer.

Web scraping

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2021

  • Applied the python packages Beautiful Soup and Selenium to web scrape information on all UK biotechnology companies.

Data science blog

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2021

  • Chess-related blog post was selected for the hand-on-tutorials column in Towards Data Science, which displays pieces that highlight best practices of data science.
  • Applied popular data science packages in python to analyse chess.com data.